Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cobb is not, never has been one to do things quietly. So, while waiting, he gave advice to able Eddie Collins, ancient teammate, then in the process of batting; appraised the opposing pitcher's ability in acid terms; discoursed on this and that subject in a manner familiar to American League players...
...still open, the closing date being March 27. The competitions are subject to the following regulations: Designs for the tickets are to be made on white paper with black India jak, and are to be simple in form. The words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae" or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
...tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones and sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first produced on the familiar violin, cello and horn, intervals smaller than the semitone. Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played: the arpacitera, a mastodonic zither, tuned in 16ths; the octavina, a towering double-bass guitar, capable of eighths; a guitarre adapted to produce quarter-tones...
...Subscriber* Zweiger's letter in TIME, Feb. 28 is rather caustic. Though not a West Virginian, I am familiar with the state and with the comparative virtues of its neighbor states. . . . Living only 50 miles from the Ohio River, Mr. Zweiger has manifestly never been up to Huntington, W. Va., a city after which Chillicothe might well pattern her ways. Being myself a native of Virginia, the original mother of these states, it grieves me to see much unwarranted mudslinging. . . J.H. HUFFARD Bluefield...
...then can Mr. Mellon (appointed by President Harding) be credited with a two billion, 600 million dollar reduction in the debt before that time? ". . . The blunder is almost incredible on the part of a newspaperman, to whom Presidential year dates are naturally the most familiar of all possible landmarks . . . the article throughout is vitiated by ... error...